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Word: blockhead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gathered a 25-million franc ($71,429) war chest for the impending political campaign. His chief antagonists, the Socialists, were reviving their "action committees" which are supposed to organize strikes if the King should return. Cried one of the Liberal leaders, Gaston Vandewiele: "Leopold is obstinate and a blockhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Going Places? | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...ghosts of Ruddigore had shouted: "Coward, poltroon, shaker, squeamer, blockhead, sluggard, dullard, dreamer, shirker, shuffler, crawler, creeper, sniffler, snuffler, waller, weeper, earthworm, maggot, tadpole, weevil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Ghost Story | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...playgrounds of the U.S. zone, some 10,000 German boys have been forgetting how to goosestep while they mastered a new sport-baseball. Egged on by G.I.s, opposing nines have knocked homers and stolen bases while frenzied fans bawled out the umpire with shouts of: "Hornochs! Faulenzer! Dieb!" (Blockhead! Bum! Crook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: World Serious | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

Charlie McCarthy, world-famed ventriloquist's dummy, began a two-year U.S. tour in which he hopes to put all 48 governors on the air-as stooges to a blockhead. His first victim, Oklahoma's big, burly Governor Robert Kerr, proved that a statesman could be as good a straight man as anyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: His Excellency, Stooge | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

This inspired Jimmy to develop a highly philosophical scene which began with Jackson casually remarking that Jimmy was a blockhead. Jimmy at once protested, "You paid me a compliment when you said my head was made of wood," and launched into a lecture on the virtues of timber. As this reached religious heat, the other members of the team, thoroughly sold on wood, joined Durante in a search for samples. They proceeded to a methodical separation of the nightclub, snatched violins from the orchestra, went backstage and to the kitchen for mixing bowls and stepladders. Gradually they covered the dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy, That Well-Dressed Man | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

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